Early detection of patients at high risk for acute kidney injury during disasters: development of a scoring system based on the Bam earthquake experience.
Conclusions: We propose 2 decision rules to predict development of AKI in earthquake victims. These scores can easily be calculated already at an early stage of a disaster, enabling rationalization of prophylactic hydration therapy in crushed earthquake victims.
PMID: 18949734 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Journal of Nephrology)
